“I feel that love is not complete if I don’t write it.” This is one of the many peculiar phrases, which in the work “I mean I love you,” They interwoven an argument articulated with love letters. The piece is from Mariano Tenconi Blanco and interpret it Violeta Urtizberea and Lucia Adurizwith music from Ian Shifres al piano, in the Picadero theater. The work continues in April, Friday and Saturday. Both actresses move with a formidable dynamic, exchanging a huge body plasticity where gestures and words enrich the plot. The interview with Violeta, the granddaughter of the great journalist Raúl Urtizberea and daughter of Mex (64), takes place in her dressing room.
News: Did you always do independent theater?
Urtizberea violet: Yes. I started at 18 with Ana Katz, doing a work that was called the loss and I did not stop. It is the theater that most question me, summons me.
News: Is acting delivery at the theater more intense than in cinema or TV?
Urtizberea: The three spaces feed. TV gives you a lot of training, you work many hours in a row, every day. In the theater, in the stage of the essay, there is a director who marks you, millimetrically, tones, words – as Mariano – that is also my friend. You have to repeat the same text every day, discovering all the layers you may have. He gives you a return every time, adds things to the work, keeps me alive and me too. This thoroughness is a job and a challenge. I think the theater makes you discover a lot from you. In audiovisual the times are faster and that does not happen to you.
News: In “Envious” You are the friendly friend, with a cheett of manual. The second season is already. Is it still for Lu Pedemonte, his character, all doubtfully perfect?
Urtizberea: (Laughs) She makes nothing notice, he argues that nothing happens to her, she does not break. I’m not going to spoil it, but Lu has its moments of crisis.
News: With Juan Ingaramo (38), musician, have been together for 10 years and are lilac parents (5). You said you did not believe in the duration of love, but you have lived a decade won …
Urtizberea: On February 14 we turned 10 and on 19, I turned 40! We met when he came to see me at the theater, and look at the laps of life, I did a work by Mariano (Teconi Blanco). It was with a lifelong friend of mine, but he was new, being Cordoba. We liked, but several months went to the first date.
News: What did they do for the couple to work?
Urtizberea: I have no idea! (Laughs) I feel that the different thing is that the power in the relationship is changing between one and the other. There are times when one is more disconnected and the other connected … a dynamic is not installed in which one is the beloved and the other who lets himself love. We are in motion all the time and there is as a need for constant seduction, not from an ugly place. We have our own spaces and share many fun spaces. We like to leave, dance, sing, transnochar. We organize a lot, with the arrival of Lila, so as not to lose what fun. The first years were more difficult, the pandemic grabbed us … but then we have grandparents, aunts, nannies, everything for our social life to continue and that new news arises. We feel that our relationship is alive. We have Marisa to take care of her since she was born, my aunt Karmita … and both Juan and I are to set limits, old school.
News: Juan was the one to have children.
Urtizberea: Yes. Because love and passion in your partner tell, but for father, the first thing is that it is a good person. Because he is going to be your child’s father.
News: Did he make a treatment to have Lila?
Urtizberea: That was a confusion, an error published by some media. What I did was freeze ovules before having Lila, as my thing. With 33 years, I had found out that I had few ovules, then I froze. And the next month, we said with Juan not to take care of ourselves. There I was pregnant. Of course, they had hungry to freeze that is that those hormones helped.
News: How is Mex as grandfather?
Urtizberea: And, it is very male. Obviously he loves her, but it is not one of those who will look for her in the garden. We live far away, 40 minutes away; It is not the one that saves my potatoes, but when they are together they play a lot. He gives him a ball but then his own.
News: Let’s move on to his grandfather, a great journalist, lawyer and doctor of political science. With two Martín Fierro, one for his program, what is his doubt? He was on the air in 1961 and 1962. He in the role of lawyer of the lay devil, held conversations with Catholic priests about issues such as sex, drugs, birth control. The cycle began with Joaquín Aduriz, who would later hang the cassock. Do you know the subject? Lucia, her cast partner, has something to do with that former church father?
Urtizberea: I know the story, of course. Re mad. He is Uncle Grandfather of Lucia. When we premiered the work, a relative sent Lucia a photo of my grandfather with Joaquín. They in the 60s made the Urtizberea-Adúriz duo and us, now, we put the last names again.
News: You are funny. Does it have to do with something innate, familiar or is it learning?
Urtizberea: I think it’s familiar. My dad is funny, my grandmother Carmen had a lot of humor. All in my family we have easy, very strong laugh, and the joke is all the time. Everything is crossed by humor and we make life more light.
News: When Martín Fierro won in 2018, for the best leading actress of daily fiction, in the soap opera “The stars”, his role was that of a young woman suffering from Tourette syndrome. Did you bother to make humor from a disease? Did you receive criticism?
Urtizberea: At first, the first 15 days that the character came out. “The stars” was a super boom and that fact was imposed. I imagined that there would be criticism. It was to interpret a character without filter, treated not with the formality of a unit, but in a daily strip at 9 at night. He was going to be another character, with all the ICTs and with Coprolalia, which is the involuntary issuance of insults. That does not have all the people suffering from the syndrome. In the program it could be funny because humor is the unexpected, it generated laughs. They were other times. I spoke a lot with the president of the Tourette Association, I asked her to stay calm, that there would be no mockery. For me it was spectacular and many people wrote to me because the disorder was made visible. To that Sumale that Florencia Estrella formed a gay couple. Chicas also wrote to me who were putting together a link with other girls. It was a novelty that lesbianism was treated with tenderness.
News: Does the comic change?
Urtizberea: It is cultural re, countries that laugh at something and others nothing. Over the years the comic is changing. Now we are at a particular moment. Everything seems cyclical, which begins and repeat itself again. But I think there is something cumulative. It is not that before it does not work. Although there are things that are no longer going, like laughing at someone. I think it’s good to laugh at oneself.
News: Will Lila be the only daughter?
Urtizberea: I don’t know … we are in doubt. It’s nice to have brothers. But you don’t have to idealize them. You can have brothers of life.
News: What did you point out in your librettite of wishes 2025?
Urtizberea: I ask less and less. I do not believe in the law of attraction, I do not focus on what I want, I prefer to be connected in the present and with what is happening. I don’t think so much about the future. Motherhood helped me a lot with the neurosis of uncertainty, of having or not work. I don’t think so much about myself. And that did very well.
News: Do you think an artist must declare his political position?
Urtizberea: This is a very difficult time for artists in general. There is a witch hunt, you panic … Besides, I think that nobody cares what my political position is. Yes I have a position taken regarding abortion, feminism … because ideology constitutes me. But in party matters I prefer not to express myself.
